To be fair, the key reasons to buy are the zoom, flash and the lens quality — these can not be accommodated in
a flat glass slab.
The trademark Zen concentric circles chin is still here, which allows it to stand out a little from the sea of
flat glass slabs.
Not exact matches
But it looks almost identical, with the
slab sides,
flat glass, and upright windshield that made the G - Class famous.
Sony went for aluminum and tempered
glass for the Z3 but this time out that frame has rounded edges, so it's not quite the
flat slab that the Z2 — and indeed the previous Z phones — was before it.
In typical Sony fashion, the design is an evolution of previous Xperia phones consisting of two
slabs of
glass, a rectangular shape with slightly rounded edges, and a
flat top and bottom, with bezels that are larger than what we expect to see in this year's competition.